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On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:14, Grant wrote: |
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> Hey Mark, |
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> Thanks for the insight. I hope it never happens, but if the day comes |
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> when Gentoo suffers a lack of contributors to such an extent that I |
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> have to find a new distro, where will I go? Is Debian the only other |
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> meta-distro out there? It's not exactly thriving is it? Is the |
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> meta-distro concept perhaps flawed? The thought of installing the |
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> latest Ubuntu release, wading through a bunch of software I'll never |
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> use, and waiting for the next big release before anything is updated |
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> makes me wanna throw up. |
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> - Grant |
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I hope I'm not too of-topic. I've never been able to bring friends to try out |
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Gentoo. Tell them they'll be working for days to get a cli distro working... |
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if they get there, setting up X is sure to be the end of the experiment. |
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What I mean is: Gentoo is for experimented users, and those who'd like to |
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become experimented. I consider myself not to be a noob anymore, after 8 |
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years of using Linux, but my last gentoo install still waits to get finished. |
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I tried to get sound, and that crashed the nvidia module, and now I don't |
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have time to cure that. |
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Now, on the next partition, I have installed Sabayon. It's bloated OK, it's |
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not compiled for my machine OK, but I had it up and running in an hour. I |
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still have to test the idea of installing Sabayon, modifying make.conf and |
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emerging world to see what happens. |
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I think the future of Gentoo could be that: an "easy install" for the mass, |
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and he opportunity for the geeks to tweak that install or directly go for the |
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total customisation. |
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I'm surprised I haven't heard more about Sabayon on this list, just as if |
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the "real" Gentoo users feel it's a treason. |
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Thierry |
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